South Asia Citizens Web

Hundreds of rural workers took part in a spirited celebration of International Workers’ Day today[1st of May 2018] in Manika (Latehar District, Jharkhand). This is an annual event, but this year rural workers in Manika were particularly agitated because of the recent injustices they have suffered. One of them is the stagnation of NREGA wages.

four posters from France around the 1st of May the international day of workers

In the CPI Party Congress in Kollam (Quilon), Kerala last week a vendetta was publicly unleashed by a senior CPI leader against a leading intellectual activist of the CPI. The aim was to sideline the intellectual comrade through a vilification campaign in the presence of a large number of comrades.

It is crucial for the truly committed secularists in Nepal to have the courage and honesty to define the meaning of secularism in the constitution, incorporating its universal contents.

Few people of the present day generation would know or recall the Hawala case of mid 1990s in which several prominent political leaders of BJP. Congress and even Janata Dal, led by L K Advani were charged with collecting bribe money from Hawala dealers Jain brothers of Madhya Pradesh. Except for then Janata Dal leaders Sharad Yadav and Devi Lal, after years of apparent meticulous probe by the CBI under the supervision of the Supreme Court, all were honourably discharged, for lack of evidence. Sharad and Devi Lal unfortunately said on camera that yes they had been given party funds and therefore they were initially denied the honourable acquittal till 1999 general elections they too aligned with the BJP and then onwards no one heard anything about the Hawala scam. The same is now happening with Saffron terror.